I want to also commend you on your leadership on the heroin crisis, and just remind my colleagues that we have a co-chaired bipartisan task force to combat the heroin epidemic in particularly rural economies.

This happens to us in energy and it is happening to us in the cost of feed so that the equation between the price for milk and the cost of feed, we are being squeezed very, very hard in New England and in New Hampshire in particular.

We know from the IOM and just generally that cancers have a long latency period, 20 to 30 years in the case of lung cancer.

I think that there's so much promise in the mechanistic-based treatment, as well as the symptomatically focused treatment.

Thank you, Chairman Coffman. And thank you for your service in the Gulf War. We're all grateful for that.

I regret that people were treated this way, and I think we have a bipartisan support here to do better going forward.

My goal here is two-fold. One is to make sure that we have a sufficient understanding to help the veterans from the Gulf War era.

I think we can all agree today that Gulf War illness is not psychosomatic.

I was told that I had the lungs of a 90-year-old smoker.

So, add 25 years, we're coming up on this cohort of veterans being 50 years or older, and I'm wondering, is there any action being undertaken by the VA--or could we encourage you to do that--where we would be providing lung cancer…

I believe it's incumbent upon us to learn as much as we can about what our Nation is asking from our servicemembers.

It's so very important that we develop clear goals to ensure that our veterans receive access to health care.